Benjamin dtjley



(No Model.)

B. DULEY.

FENCE MAKING MACHINE.

No. 454,260. Patented June 16, 1891.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN DULEY, OF HUNTINGTON, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF TlVO-THIRDS TO \TILTJIABI H. SMITH AND ELMER E. STULTS, BOTII OF SAME PLACE.

FENCE-MAKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 454,260, dated June 16, 1891.

Application filed March 3, 1891 Serial No. 383,536. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.- are passed pins (5 for pivoting the Wire-cross- Be it known that I, BENJAMIN DULEY, a ing fingers G to the studs. These fingers, citizen of the United States, residing at Huntwhich in this instance are three in number, ington, in the county of Huntington and are provided at their free ends with diamet- 5 State of Indiana, have invented certain new rically-opposite slots or recesses 7, in which 55 and useful Improvements in Fence-Making when the machine is in operation the wires Machines; andIdo declare the followingto be rest. The bar D is provided with an operata full, clear, and exact description of the ining-handle 8. vention, such as will enable others skilled in In order that the fingers maybe automati- I0 the art to which'it appertains to make and use cally held in a horizontal position to permit 60 the same, reference being had to the accomthem to be conveniently engaged by the wires, panying drawings, and to the letters and figand also in a vertical positionto overcome ures of reference marked thereomwhich form the tendency of the crossed wires to straighten a part of this specification. out before another paling is inserted, I form I My invention relates to that class of fencethe pivotal end of one of them,preferably the 65 making machines in which there is a bar procentral one, with three fiat faces, (lettered, revided with a series of pivoted wire-crossing spectively, g g g and to the bar I secure fingers adapted by a Vertical reciprocatory edgewise one end of a leaf-spring H, the free movement of the said bar to cause parallel end of which engages with the aforesaid flat pairs of wires to cross between palings or slats faces of the finger with a force sufficient to 7: inserted between the said wires. hold it and, through their connection with The invention will first be described in the bar, the other fingers in the desired posiconnection with the accompanying drawings, tion.

and then pointed out in the claim. I designates a spacing-bar, the upper and In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevathe lower portions of which are bifurcated, as 75 t-ion of a section of fencing, showing my iinat 9, so as to admit of the bar being placed proved fence-making machine in operative over the Wires 0. The upper end of the bar connection with the parallel wires of the is provided with an arm 10, designed to rest fence. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the maupon the top of the paling previously secured 3o chine removed from the fence, a portion of in place, whereby the said bar is held in ver- 80 the bar being broken away to show the mantical adjustment, a spring-clamp 11, secured ner of securing the wire-crossing fingers in to the side of the bar, serving to hold the place. Fig. 3 is an elevation of a convenient same in adjustment against lateral displaceform of spacing-bar. Fig. 4 is a perspective ment. A handle 12 is also provided to assist 3 5 detail view of one of the studs to which the in handling the bar. 8 5 Wire-crossing fingers are pivoted. In operation the parallel series of Wires are Referring to the drawings, A designates a firmly secured to two posts (one only being post, B a series of palings or slats, and 0 shown in the drawings) in the ordinary manpairs of parallel wires secured to the said ner. The spacing-bar is then placed against post, all of which parts are of the ordinary one of the posts and a palingis inserted in po- 90 construction. sition between the wires. The wire-crossing D designates a bar through which extends fingers, which have previously been placed a series of openings 1, preferably rectangular in position between the wires, are then given in form, in which openings fit the squared a half-turn by reciprocating the bar D either shanks 2 of a series of studs E. The ends of up or down, as the case may be, thus securing 5 the shanks are screw-threaded, as at 3, on the first paling in place. The spacing-bar is which threaded portions fit thumb-nuts F, by then removed and is placed against the palmeans of which the studs are securely clamped ing just secured, another paling is inserted, in place. The enlarged ends 4 of the studs and the bar is reciprocated in the opposite are provided with apertures 5, through which direction, thereby securing the second paling I03 in place, the same operation being repeated until the desired length of the fence is completed.

By means of the openings 1 in the bar D the wire-crossing fingers may be adjusted so as to admit of the Wires being arranged at regular or irregular distances apart, or of three or more series of Wires being crossed at one time, as, if desired, additional fingers may readily be secured in place to meet any requirement.

Having thus fully described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a fence-making machine, the combination,witha bar, of a series of studsadjustably BENJAMIN DULEY. \Vitnesses:

WILLIAM II. SMITH, ELMER E. STUL'rs. 

